If you’ve been wondering when AI agents would stop just chatting and start actually doing things onchain, Base just moved the timeline up. Coinbase’s layer 2 network announced on June 23 that it has added 13 new app integrations to its Model Context Protocol, or MCP, giving AI agents the ability to trade, lend, mint, launch tokens, and make purchases across a significantly wider slice of the Base ecosystem.
The expansion roughly triples the protocol’s reach. When Base MCP first launched on May 26, it shipped with plugins for seven protocols, including Morpho and Uniswap. Now, with integrations for Balancer, Bitrefill, Brickken, KyberSwap, and others, the toolkit available to AI-powered agents has grown considerably.
What Base MCP actually does
MCP is essentially a bridge that lets large language models, think Claude and ChatGPT, interact with onchain applications on Base. Instead of a user manually navigating to a DEX, connecting a wallet, and signing a swap, an AI agent can propose the entire transaction. The user just reviews and approves.
Base MCP is built around non-custodial architecture with OAuth-based authentication, meaning the AI never holds your keys. It proposes, you dispose.
